Robert Morris Alum Named to U.S. Olympic Team

Jan 01, 2014

Courtesy Robert Morris Athletic Communications

Pittsburgh, Pa. – Jan. 1, 2014 – Former Robert
Morris University women’s hockey goaltender Brianne
McLaughlin has made the U.S. women’s national team that will
compete in the 2014 Olympic Winter Games next month in Sochi,
Russia. This will be McLaughlin’s second Olympic appearance,
as she was a part of the 2010 U.S. women’s national team that
won silver at Vancouver.

In addition, this will be McLaughlin’s fifth time
competing in a major international event as a part of the U.S.
women’s national hockey team. The goaltender won gold medals
in the 2011 and 2013 International Ice Hockey Federation World
Women’s Championships, and took home silver in the 2012
competition.

In her four seasons donning the Colonials’ red, white, and
blue, McLaughlin was a four-time All-College Hockey America (CHA)
honoree and earned three national defensive player of the week
awards. The netminder holds numerous program records, including the
top spot in shutouts (eight), saves per game (31.74), and saves
(3,809) – the latter of which also being a NCAA record.

The team was introduced this evening in Ann Arbor, Mich. at the
second intermission of the NHL’s 2014 Winter Classic.

McLaughlin, a native of Sheffield, Ohio, is the only Robert
Morris student-athlete to compete in the Olympic Games. She
graduated in 2011 with a degree in nursing.